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If the expiration date on a sterile supply (not drugs) is 9-2001, does it expire on the first day of September or midnight of the last day of September? If your institution has rationale or a policy please include it in your reply.

IsseyM- I agree with TakeTwo. The charge nurse will not let you get into trouble. Unless that person has a cowboy/girl mentality about emergencies. Nobody wants to get overwhelmed when the case gets tough. Remember your basic knowledge and put i...

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

I know of a CV SurgeryPA who got a blood drop splash in the eye. She was wearing safety glasses with side protectors but somehow the drop got around. The drop was infected with a herpetic virus. It blinded her dominant eye.

Technicare is a great bacteriocide. Too good actually. Be sure to wash the vagina out with lots of water or saline after the case or your patient is likely to get a yeast infection. The sustained kill of the prep slows repopulation of normal flora...

Straight to the bone and wear Kendall knee high TED's when I can get the rep. to comp me some. Too expensive to buy. My legs really feel good after a 10 hour day on an epoxy over concrete OR floor. and now that I think about it I feel real sexy p...

Ferret, OH HO! The double en'tandre. Seriously...major lubrication helps the cath go in easier. Have you ever got the thing halfway in and hit a dry spot? Yes that applies to both situations. OUCH! Incidently, the lubrication/penetration bit ca...

Tory, I'm curious. You are a nurse at only 19years old? That is an amazing accomplishment! So you graduated HS at 16 or 17 and then completed your AD and state boards by 19? Your school must not have had the multi-year waiting period to enroll i...

Please read the spirited exchange from other members on this very subject. There is also a discussion on the AHVAP website. Remember to think about stringent gov. regs and science. Leave your emotions on the platform this is a wild ride. https://a...

Get in contact with the manager of the OR at the place you would like to work. Applications go through HR and end up in the nursing pile, sometimes never to be forwarded to the OR. Get the contact info and make the call. You have everything to gai...

The insuflators have a pressure control mechanism that adjusts the gas volume and pressure dependent on the machine settings. Anyway, have you considered the gas displacment of a 5 or 10 mm instrument? Multiply the length that is actually in the tr...

Joke: Do you know what the first thing a surgeon's spouse does with their a**hole when they wake up in the morning? Dress 'em up and send 'em to work.

For cleaning and steam penetration. The pressure equalization story is crap.

Offer them you credentials and additional abilities re: languages and anything else you think of that puts you ahead of the rest and then say you are only looking for day shift employment. If you really feel those are the only hours you are willing ...

In surgery many a nurse will cut the balloon port off of a foley instead of aspirating the fluid out before pulling the cath out. I once saw a nurse pull on the foley and cut the whole thing. Up the cath stub shot into the bladder. Had to delay th...

Oncall, On the reprocessing of items-It is up to the clinical site as to use or not to use. The fact that the FDA certifying the individual items for the number of times it can be used, is a scientifically investigated process. Not just some guy sa...

Once I had this anesthesia doc who was pissed b/c the aids didn't hop to when he ordered them to fetch a prep table to put his non-surgery related laptop on. I asked him if he planned on returning it to it's assigned place when he was through for th...

The FDA certifies companies to provide reprocessed "single use" supplies. The certification requires validations that the item meet or exceed the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) specifications for that product as indicated in the original FDA ...

[/b] Thou Shalt Not Whine!

Yes. Doing the show with Rachael Ray would be way too much fun. Cooking up a wonder to rival Bobby flay would be supreme. Shouln't be too hard...he usually has char all over his dishes anyway. Don't think I could ever get used to eating carbon wi...

Mike, Perhapse your infection control pratitioner or OR Educator could help you out. There is also a vast resource at AORN. They usually have an article on the subject annually. AJN and other professional journals also address this from time to ti...

Grimmy, Have you ever read the contents of a shurclens prep container? NO ANTIMICROBIAL or MICROBIOCIDAL AGENTS there! Not much more than purified water. Using that to prep before going throught that staph ridden nose and into the brain? How do y...

Do all of you who use alcohol allow the use of electrosurgical devices? There is an incredible fire hazard there! CHG and PCMX should never be used on mucous membranes. Phisohex is known to cause cancer. All prep solutions should be allowed to dr...

Keep your eyes open and be careful. I would worry about getting sucked into her "syndrome" as a co-dependent.

Check out the Ohio Board of Nursing site. It has the ce requirements and qualifications for re-liscensure. There may also be some information about nclex question. Good Luck!